Clark County, Washington, keeps 800 students out of school due to measles outbreak.
One-year-old Abel Zhang cries as he receives the last of three inoculations, including a vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella , at the International Community Health Services on Feb. 13, 2019, in Seattle.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.In the Washington county that is home to one of the nation’s largest measles outbreaks, the effects go far beyond the 71 confirmed cases.
Since January, field trips, after-school activities and an assembly honoring Martin Luther King Jr. have been canceled or postponed. Some students are doing homework off prepared handouts; others are using school-issued laptops to keep up.If one child in a school is diagnosed, all are considered exposed — and any student whose parents cannot prove their child was vaccinated is kept away.
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